Written At Rome Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDEFGGDHIJDKDEFDLD MNGOPGQ| Alone in Rome Why Rome is lonely too | A |
| Besides you need not be alone the soul | B |
| Shall have society of its own rank | C |
| Be great be true and all the Scipios | D |
| The Catos the wise patriots of Rome | E |
| Shall flock to you and tarry by your side | F |
| And comfort you with their high company | G |
| Virtue alone is sweet society | G |
| It keeps the key to all heroic hearts | D |
| And opens you a welcome in them all | H |
| You must be like them if you desire them | I |
| Scorn trifles and embrace a better aim | J |
| Than wine or sleep or praise | D |
| Hunt knowledge as the lover wooes a maid | K |
| And ever in the strife of your own thoughts | D |
| Obey the nobler impulse that is Rome | E |
| That shall command a senate to your side | F |
| For there is no might in the universe | D |
| That can contend with love It reigns forever | L |
| Wait then sad friend wait in majestic peace | D |
| The hour of heaven Generously trust | M |
| Thy fortune's web to the beneficent hand | N |
| That until now has put his world in fee | G |
| To thee He watches for thee still His love | O |
| Broods over thee and as God lives in heaven | P |
| However long thou walkest solitary | G |
| The hour of heaven shall come the man appear | Q |
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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